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Extrapolating a U.S. Open winner

By Matt Willis
ESPN.com

Friday, June 12, 2009

With 156 players in the field to start the 2009 U.S. Open, it doesn't take a genius to tell you that only one can win. It also doesn't take a degree in mathematics to figure out that 155 of those players will not win the Open. Many people are picking winners, but I'm going ignore the degree of difficulty and pick 155 losers. What does it take to win the U.S. Open? Well, you've got to have heart, but that doesn't mean Dudley Hart's will win it (especially after he WD'd). You've got to go lo ...

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